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I’ve read many of those books. I wrote a thorough review of the Blomberg edited book on premillennialism.

Most people who critique the pre-trib rapture view critique a caricature of it as highlighted by novelists and writers who are not New Testament scholars or systematic theologians.

Also, the contrast between the seemingly vertical eschatology of John 14:1-4 and the presumably horizontal eschatology of Matt 24 and Rev 19 are rarely discussed in the secondary literature. We get a patronizing explanation of apantesis in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, and the discussion is over.

Schnabel’s 40 questions book is really good too. I would definitely add it to the list.

The Blomberg edited volume on premillenialism is a mixed bag, as one might surmise from a book with such wide participation and topics. Blomberg’s essay is definitely without doubt the best in the book.

Witherington on Revelation and Koester’s Revelation and the End of All Things are insightful models of compression. I’m not one of those guys who says “the fatter the book, the better.” Sometimes that’s true (Davies and Allison’s 3 volumes on Matthew, Block on Ezekiel), but I usually prefer stuff that is well written, engaging, judicious, and packs a lot of insight into an economy of words.

I’m surprised that The Millennial Maze by Grenz didn’t make the list. I’m not an expert, and a number of those books on his list I haven’t read; but Grenz does a nice job of laying the positions out for the reader.